Canadian Tenor Ken Lavigne has hit the road with a new show. “Three Knights with a Tenor,” an admittedly cheeky title, features the music of Sir Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber. Lavigne has returned to northern Ontario with six shows. He opened in Kirkland Lake […]
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The Canadian PressJoshua Clipperton TORONTO–The Toronto Maple Leafs gave the defending Stanley Cup champions all they could handle for long stretches yesterday. And the St. Louis Blues responded with what won them their rings last June–in the end, they found a way. Alex Pietrangelo scored the winner in the third […]
The Canadian PressShawn Jeffords TORONTO–Reaching a deal with education workers that put a cap on wage increases was a “significant success” for the Ontario government, the province’s education minister said yesterday. Stephen Lecce said the tentative agreement with Ontario’s 55,000 education workers, which averted a strike that would have seen […]
The Canadian PressNicole Thompson Ontario’s police watchdog will not charge an officer who shot and killed a knife-wielding woman in a Hamilton apartment last October, the arm’s-length agency said yesterday as it wrapped up its investigation. The officer was under immediate threat when he shot at the 30-year-old woman four […]
The Canadian Press STOCKHOLM–Canadian-born scientist James Peebles is one of three researchers who have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for their contributions to the understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place within it. Peebles, born in the Winnipeg neighbourhood of St. Boniface, is a physics […]
Tonight will be clear to partly cloudy and mild with a low of nine C (48 F). Tomorrow will have sunshine with areas of high clouds and then a bit of rain rolling through at night. Expect a high of 18 (64) and a low of 10 (50). Thursday will […]
Ken Kellar CBC Thunder Bay’s Jeff Walters, right, spoke with new Fort Frances Public Library CEO Joan MacLean this morning at the library during the public broadcaster’s on-location segment of “Superior Morning.” Walters and fellow CBC journalist Matt Vis were in Fort Frances this morning as part of a trip […]
The Canadian PressKelly Geraldine Malone WINNIPEG–Manitoba’s advocate for youth said a lot more needs to be done if the government is to save children in care from the grim reality of an Indigenous teenage girl whose body was found in a river. “Awareness is the first step,” said Daphne Penrose […]
The Associated PressMichael Wagaman SANTA CLARA, Calif.–Richard Sherman has a strong message for anyone still doubting the unbeaten San Francisco 49ers. “Don’t flip-flop,” Sherman said after the 49ers thumped the Cleveland Browns 31-3 last night. “If you said we weren’t going to make it, you said we were some way […]
The Canadian PressArmina Ligaya Women in their core working years earned on average 13.3 percent less per hour than men in 2018, marking a 5.5 percentage point improvement over the past 20 years, according to a new report by Statistics Canada. The research paper released yesterday said in 2018 female […]
Staff It was a day of mixed results for the Muskie court sport teams against the host Sioux Lookout Warriors yesterday in NorWOSSA action. Both girls’ basketball teams came away victorious while the boys’ volleyball squads both suffered losses. The junior hoopsters improved to a league-best 5-0 with a 47-37 […]
The Canadian PressJoan BrydenMia Rabson OTTAWA–The only English-language debate to feature all six federal party leaders devolved yesterday into crosstalk and mudslinging as the leaders tried to break the impasse in voting intentions that has persisted through three weeks of campaigning. As the incumbent prime minister, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau […]
